Little girl Gitanjiali Rao was voted ‘Children of the year 2020’ has made Hollywood star Angelina Jolie admire and have an intimate conversation.

The 15-year-old girl was voted “Children of the Year 2020”.

Time magazine – America voted Gitanjiali Rao as “Children of the Year 2020”. This is a tribute to 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥ren between the ages of 8 and 16 who have had a positive impact on public awareness and inspiration.

Gitanjiali Rao is attending a school for gifted 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥ren in Cororado City and is preparing to take the entrance exam to Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Gitanjiali Rao has many inventions in the IT environment, epidemiology and genetics.

Hollywood star – Angelina Jolie, as the Goodwill Ambassador of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, has expressed her admiration for Gitanjiali Rao. And it was Angelina Jolia who conducted a conversation with Gitanjiali Rao.

Angelina Jolie: When did you know that science was your passion?

Gitanjiali Rao: I don’t think there was a particular moment when I found myself liking science. I just want to always see a smile on everyone’s face and my daily purpose is to make someone happy. This desire soon became the question: How can we bring positivity and community to the place we live?

Then when I was in second or third grade, I started thinking about applying science and technology to change society. When I was about 10 years old, I told my parents I wanted to study Micro Carbon Fiber Sensor Technology at the Water Quality Lab in Denver. My mother gasped: “What thread? “. I think with just a few changes, this technology will reach users in a short time. If no one else does it, I will.

Angelina Jolie: Usually people of your generation just dare to do something without causing too great consequences. But your generation already knows how to find out and think for themselves, right?

I know that one of your recent initiatives is aimed at preventing bullying on the Internet. Can I tell you about this?

Gitanjiali Rao: That service called Kindly (including 1 mobile app and Chrome browser extension) applies artificial intelligence to early detection of bullying. I enter some words that represent bullying, then the system will automatically find similar words. When she types a word or sentence into her phone, the program will identify if there is bullying in it and if so, it will give her a choice – either correct it or continue sending. The purpose is not to punish because I know teenagers these days like to talk offensively sometimes. This program is just to help them think again about what they are saying and do differently next time.

Angelina Jolie: Does that mean you just have to put it on your kid’s phone?

Gitanjiali Rao: Yes. I consulted parents, teachers and students, but honestly, I don’t think students like to be micromanaged like that.

Angelina Jolie: That’s right. Her 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥ren said: “Don’t touch your phone. Do it yourself.”

Gitanjiali Rao: Sure, I would say the same. But there are many peers who tell their grand𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥ren that they don’t feel micromanaged by the program, but are given the opportunity to realize their own mistakes in speaking online. I’m happy about that because that’s what it’s for.

Hollywood star – Angelina Jolie.

Angelina Jolie: The way you see technology as a tool to remind people and help them grow is a new perspective. It’s nice to see a woman, a young inventor with such a radical view. How does this affect you? She believes that women are very capable, but in science and technology they are too few…

Gitanjiali Rao: I don’t look like the savant who often appears on television. It’s usually an older, white male.

I find it strange that people almost always determine roles based on gender, age and skin color. My goal is to make my own devices, first to solve the world’s problems, and then to inspire others to do the same. Because I have realized for myself that if a scientist looks different, other people will feel that only special people can do such a thing.

The message I want people to feel is: if this girl can do it, I can do it, anyone can do it.

Angelina Jolie: I know you have “creative teaching courses”. Tell her about them.

Gitanjiali Rao: Those are just experiences that I want to share with everyone. I discovered an effective process that I now apply to everything: observing, brainstorming, researching, modeling, and communicating. Start with simple presentations and planning, then gradually add experiments, then small contests that any student can do.

Meanwhile, many of the students I come into contact with don’t know where to start. But if you give them a ray of light, a fulcrum to open up, everything will change. This means that there will be one more person in the world coming up with an idea to solve the problem.

At the end of each discussion, each person comes up with an idea to do something. If everyone focused on thinking about it for 45 minutes or an hour, imagine what the results would be if we did it continuously for many months. I am very happy when I receive emails, like: “Hi, I was at your discussion four months ago and now I have a product, I am so happy: it is a knowing shoe. Call 911 yourself when it’s dangerous.”

Angelina Jolie: What do you do now? There are problems we can’t do, but there are also problems we need to solve.

Gitanjiali Rao: I am researching a simple method to detect microbiological contamination in water, such as parasitic infection. I hope that this work will not require expensive and precise equipment so that people in third world countries can perceive what is in the country.

Angelina Jolie: Your generation is truly unique. Children not only receive existing knowledge but also know how to ask the opposite question and that is very important. I know the world now has a lot of problems, but with the research on water pollution, it seems that environmental issues are what you are most concerned about?

Gitanjiali Rao: Yes. Our generation is facing a huge number of problems that people have never experienced before. But at the same time all the old problems are still there. For example, you and I are living at the height of a global epidemic, but here comes the problem of respecting human rights. There are problems I didn’t create but I need to solve. For example, the issue of climate change as well as bullying on the internet.

Simply put, find out what excites you and figure out how to deal with it. Even if it’s a small thing, like garbage collection. Everything has meaning. Don’t try to think about big, big things.

Much of my work on the problem of dirty water microbiology is established in the area of genetics that I am still trying to understand. I also research products that help diagnose prescription-oipoid addiction syndrome through gene therapy. I am very interested in the field of genetics. Because I like this field, I should pursue it.

Gitanjiali Rao on the cover of Time magazine.

Angelina Jolie: I love it when you say find a way to solve the problems you care about most, not try to solve all the problems. (And when you’re not doing all that special – I suddenly feel like I’m talking to a 60-year-old scientist from Geneva, not a 15-year-old girl doing it.)

Gitanjiali Rao: Oh no, you’re actually doing a lot of 15-year-olds during this quarantine period. I bake a lot of cakes. Sometimes there are no eggs or flour in the house, so I have to go online to find a recipe for waffles without eggs, flour and sugar. And then I try to do as directed. Recently I made bread, the cake is delicious and I am very proud of myself.

Angelina Jolie: I’m happy to get to know you a little better. I am sure that in the near future I will be able to use one of his inventions, follow his next contributions to life, and be proud “I met this girl”.

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